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Hermann Julius Oberth
Louise Thaden
Charles Lindbergh
Albert W. Stevens
Yakov Isidorovich Perel’man
Friedrich Tsander
Lt. Oakley Kelly
Eugen Sänger
Robert Hutchings Goddard
Noel F. Parrish
Nikolai Alekseevich Rynin
Calbraith Perry Rodgers
C. G. Taylor
Philip Ellaby Cleator
Willy Ley
Hermann Ganswindt
James Hart Wyld
Cornelius Coffey
Amelia Earhart
Lt. Lowell Smith
Flying Leathernecks U.S. Marine Corps Aviation
Frank Joseph Malina
Lt. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle
The Tuskegee Airmen
C. Alfred Anderson and Albert Forsythe
William J. Powell Jr.
Bessie Coleman
Walter Hohmann
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
Max Valier
Sergei Pavlovich Korolëv
Auguste Piccard
Capt. Hawthorne C. Gray
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Ruth Nichols
Pioneers of Naval Aviation
Lt. John Macready
Chauncey Spencer
Gawain Edward "Ed" Pendray
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky
Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie
Lt. Leslie P. Arnold
Wernher von Braun
William T. Piper
Janet Bragg
Willa Brown
Hermann "Noordung" Potočnik
Yuri Vasilievich Kondratyuk
Flight Crew of the NC-4
James Herman Banning
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